MOREHEAD CITY, N.C.—PointClickFish.com is an online community of captains,
anglers, companies, and persons who just
enjoy fishing. We have partnerships with
Gaff Magazine, a coastal angling and destination
publication, and with Captain Wild
Bill Wichrowski from Discovery Channel’s
Deadliest Catch. Gaff Magazine helps promote
the public events that we’re involved
in, and Captain Wild Bill serves as master of
ceremonies or as a special guest at various
saltwater fishing tournaments and events
that we run.

NEEDED HIGH-QUALITY STREAMING

We’ve found however, that sometimes
partnerships and endorsements aren’t always
enough. In order to keep our community
engaged and interested in our
business, we organized a live events production
team whose function is to help
promote our organization and its various
events. As part of this initiative, the team
needed a way to capture and stream live
video from the best fishing events around
the countr. Whatever we chose had to be
affordable, easy to use, portable, and provide
high-quality streaming.

Initially, we found that most of the systems
were either too complicated or did
not stream at a high enough quality. level.
After some additional research, we discovered
Livestream and their Livestream
Broadcaster product. This is an affordable
end-to-end solution that easily integrated
into our salt
water network
operations and
has allowed us
to broadcast live
from pretty much
anywhere, including
marinas, conference
centers,
docks and even
onboard boats.
It’s a truly portable
encoder that
mounts to cameras
and streams
via either wired
connections, Wi-Fi-enabled installations,
or through a
3G/4G wireless modem.

We began using the Broadcaster shortly
after its initial release and have been impressed
with the continuing service and
support that Livestream has provided for
this device. We believe it should be given
careful consideration by anyone who
needs a live streaming system.

HEAVY-DUTY PRODUCT SUPPORT

The Livestream support staff has been
very responsive to any questions we’ve
had about the product, and such assistance
has been timely and well-documented. Unlimited
email support is included in their
free and basic plans, and should you want
seven-day per week phone support, this is
available in the company’s premium plan;
however, we’ve found that most of our
questions could be easily handled by email.

Our network team is looking forward
to implementing Livestream’s soon-to-be
released new Broadcaster which will have
built-in Verizon 4G LTE capability. We’re
also thinking about adding Livestream’s
Studio HD500 “all-in-one portable production
studio” to further enhance our
streaming capabilities. The Livestream Service
and Broadcaster have provided flexibility
and growth without compromising
quality, allowing us to just point, click, and
stream.